For Patchsrv.dat problem and For the attention of DEV.

[Jaxen]

This is for you if your patcher displays an error saying:

Run-Time Error

[Jaxen]

bump :roll:

[cybermax]

I have tested this with 2 computers in my home. This is what is common with the computers :

1. Windows XP SP1
2. EverQuest patched to latest with all expansions incl. LoY
3. Both computers on same lan behind same firewall

This is what is different :

1. EQ installed in different folders (hence.. the error message points to the current EQ installed folder and NOTHING on the server wich was suggested in an earlier thread..)
2. One machine running without any mods of any kinds in UI
3. Installed the MDAC posted on news on one of them

Both computers have excactly the same error (xept for the link to the EQ folder where EQ is installed)

So.. anyone have any USEFUL tips for this problem? Does not seem like it is only me that have this problem.. So.. ?

[cybermax]

Oki.. found something out.. please someone respond to this :

My firewall logs this :
EQEmuPatcher v1 N 2003-03-06 14:24:52
And it is trying to access this :
patchdata.foreverhacking.net - 80 180 284 - http TCP GET http://patchdata.foreverhacking.net/patch.dat

Now.. a quick dns lookup at my house gives me this :
[root@dns root]# dig www.foreverhacking.net

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> www.foreverhacking.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16364
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.foreverhacking.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN A 207.44.214.99

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns1.cyberjunky.net.
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns2.cyberjunky.net.
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns3.cyberjunky.net.

;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 213.225.108.130#53(213.225.108.130)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 6 15:29:12 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 121

And a same for patchdata :
[root@dns root]# dig patchdata.foreverhacking.net

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> patchdata.foreverhacking.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45004
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;patchdata.foreverhacking.net. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
foreverhacking.net. 238 IN SOA ns1.cyberjunky.net. hostmaster.cyberjunky.net. 2003030303 300 120 3600 300

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 213.225.108.130#53(213.225.108.130)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 6 15:30:00 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108

As you can see.. the patchdata "subdomain" of foreverhacking.net is non excistant. Anyone give me the current IP adress to connect to, i would be happy to do it. I tried to directly download "patch.dat" from www.foreverhacking.net , but no avail.

So.. there is apparently nothing wrong with the patcher itself and the error message with patchsrv.dat, but rather a fault at connecting to the actual site where the files reside. Either the files have been stopped (illegal copied versions of .exe files or similar), or foreverhacking.net have just removed it due to bandwith or whatnot.

So.. can ANYONE at all verify that they are able to actually patch now? ie. Remove any "patch.dat", "Patchsrv.dat" or "patchedtemp" files residing in eq folder, and run the patch.exe again.

Please.. :)

[Ayukawa]

Go into your ..\everquest dir (wherever it is) and open up the file patcher.log. Notepad will suffice.

Post what it says here.

[Jaxen]

Here it is, but to my eyes it looks kinda confusing and is not searching for any patchsrv.dat


************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 02/03/2003 15:59:14
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 2043

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 02/03/2003 16:01:05
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 4026

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 03/03/2003 22:14:12
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 4697

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 04/03/2003 20:04:39
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 5748

[Vermea]

I think you may be onto something. Everyone's having trouble finding patchsrv.dat...yet everyone's who does work doesn't look for patchsrv.dat, just patch.dat.....maybe this could be the lead to the fix that we're been waiting for.

[Trumpcard]

Ive never touched the patcher, the developer that wrote that is gone temporarily due to Real Life (tm) issues. Can anyone comment on the contents of the patchsrv.dat file? I'm guessing it's just a location of the patch server. I'm wondering if they're are multiple versions of the program floating around, one bad one, one good.

[Ayukawa]

Trump

I have had the problem as well. I never made any change to the program. Used the same one with the same install both before it worked and after it worked. v1.0.1 (aka never redownloaded it)

At no time during when it was not working or when it was working or after it was working was this file either resident on any of my systems, logged in the firewall or logged by the router.

Though I could field a guess, I would probably get flamed for it, as to the nature of this file.

Looking at the patcher.log I see very little difference between one that fails with this error and one that worked fine other than the time of day and whether or not you get the http: 7500 error.

here is my patcher.log:

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 8:29:00 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 4945

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 4767 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4767
GetFile Completed: 1906

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 8:29:50 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 397

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 4767 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4767
GetFile Completed: 377

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 9:27:23 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 1313

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 9:27:42 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 1705

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 9:35:19 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 375

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 9:37:22 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 521

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/25/03 11:31:30 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 435

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 1:19:07 AM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 559

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 10:06:53 AM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 1690

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 12:27:50 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 519

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 2:15:31 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 1123

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 4:32:52 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 363

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 6:06:04 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 3300

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2/26/03 11:31:40 PM
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 1218 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1218
GetFile Completed: 4131

GetFile Filename: patcher.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 7617 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 7617
GetFile Completed: 405

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\bmpwad8.s3d
Response Completed!
Size: 307837 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 307837
GetFile Completed: 5280

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\credits.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 9886 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 9886
GetFile Completed: 205

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqfecfg.cfg
Response Completed!
Timeout Exceeded Waiting for HTTP Response: 7500

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqgame.exe
Response Completed!
Size: 1040620 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1040620
GetFile Completed: 24660

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqgfx_dx8.dll
Response Completed!
Size: 494164 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 494164
GetFile Completed: 6978

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqhost.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 361 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 361
GetFile Completed: 233

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqmain.dll
Response Completed!
Size: 207935 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 207935
GetFile Completed: 4565

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqnews.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 3351 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 3351
GetFile Completed: 1615

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqp_config.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 638 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 638
GetFile Completed: 1478

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqp_strings.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 10876 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 10876
GetFile Completed: 288

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqstr_en.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 85279 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 85279
GetFile Completed: 980

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\eqtext.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 12431 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 12431
GetFile Completed: 208

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\EverQuest.exe
Response Completed!
Size: 469076 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 469076
GetFile Completed: 5220

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\license.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 5735 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5735
GetFile Completed: 201

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\snd7.pfs
Response Completed!
Size: 349479 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 349479
GetFile Completed: 4249

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\spellsnew.edd
Response Completed!
Size: 17849 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 17849
GetFile Completed: 3200

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\spellsnew.eff
Response Completed!
Size: 4565 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4565
GetFile Completed: 910

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\spells_en.txt
Response Completed!
Size: 201978 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 201978
GetFile Completed: 2758

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\TestEverQuest.exe
Response Completed!
Size: 469040 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 469040
GetFile Completed: 6023

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\help\help.html
Response Completed!
Size: 1084 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1084
GetFile Completed: 105

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\default.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 5433 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5433
GetFile Completed: 505

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\buttonBig-bg.png
Response Completed!
Size: 5778 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5778
GetFile Completed: 285

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\buttonBig-dis.png
Response Completed!
Size: 6329 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 6329
GetFile Completed: 277

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\buttonBig-hover.png
Response Completed!
Size: 5416 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5416
GetFile Completed: 192

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\buttonBig-sel.png
Response Completed!
Size: 5421 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5421
GetFile Completed: 150

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\main-bg.png
Response Completed!
Size: 388838 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 388838
GetFile Completed: 4464

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\prompt-bg.png
Response Completed!
Size: 32732 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 32732
GetFile Completed: 515

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\prompt-fg.png
Response Completed!
Size: 4109 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4109
GetFile Completed: 140

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\prompt-hover.png
Response Completed!
Size: 4184 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4184
GetFile Completed: 147

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\Skins\default\images\prompt-sel.png
Response Completed!
Size: 4177 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 4177
GetFile Completed: 200

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\SpellEffects\spela2.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 73192 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 73192
GetFile Completed: 1684

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\SpellEffects\spelb1.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 26285 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 26285
GetFile Completed: 384

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\SpellEffects\spelc3.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 2453 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 2453
GetFile Completed: 123

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\SpellEffects\spely3.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 3725 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 3725
GetFile Completed: 134

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\dragitem25.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 40635 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 40635
GetFile Completed: 544

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1124 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1124
GetFile Completed: 125

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_Animations.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 6334 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 6334
GetFile Completed: 238

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_BugReportWnd.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 2045 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 2045
GetFile Completed: 120

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_CharacterCreate.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 5447 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5447
GetFile Completed: 150

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_FacePick.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1646 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1646
GetFile Completed: 110

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_GroupWindow.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1617 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1617
GetFile Completed: 155

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_InspectWnd.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1710 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1710
GetFile Completed: 115

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_Inventory.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 3613 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 3613
GetFile Completed: 195

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_LootWnd.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1698 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1698
GetFile Completed: 115

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_NoteWindow.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1250 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1250
GetFile Completed: 110

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_PetInfoWindow.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1348 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1348
GetFile Completed: 145

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_SelectorWnd.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1206 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1206
GetFile Completed: 124

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\EQUI_ShortDurationBuffWind ow.xml
Response Completed!
Size: 1089 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 1089
GetFile Completed: 109

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\gemicons01.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 139892 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 139892
GetFile Completed: 1629

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\gemicons02.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 96718 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 96718
GetFile Completed: 1695

GetFile Filename: eqfiles\uifiles\default\window_pieces04.tga
Response Completed!
Size: 5698 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 5698
GetFile Completed: 200


Hope you can see where I get my ideas from when assimilating all of this information together and applying Arthur Conan Doyles theories to said information.

[marvy]

I am getting the same problem. Brand spanking new install of both EQ and EQEMU patches. Running Win XP - SP1.

I created a patchsrv.dat file on my local disk and it got alittle further but bombed out cause it obviously didn't have the right data in it. Looks like its just been left out of the installed I guess.

Tony

[cybermax]

So it is my DNS server that does not work? Have you even looked at my post?

If i type :
ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net

i get :
Ping request could not find host patchdata.foreverhacking.net. Please check the name and try again.

Should this happen?

This is my patch.txt file :
************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 07.03.2003 08:59:25
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 3389 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 3389
GetFile Completed: 437

And the only file that gets downloaded is "patchedtemp" and it contains an standard error msg ie. 404 error in html.
This :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>The page cannot be displayed</TITLE>
<STYLE>A:link {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #ff0000
}
A:visited {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #4e4e4e
}
</STYLE>

<META content=NOINDEX name=ROBOTS>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252">
<SCRIPT>
function Homepage(){
<!--
// in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
// res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm

//For testing use DocURL = "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#https://www.microsoft.com/bar.htm"
DocURL=document.URL;

//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skipping the res://
protocolIndex=DocURL.indexOf("://",4);

//this finds the ending slash for the domain server
serverIndex=DocURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);

//for the href, we need a valid URL to the domain. We search for the # symbol to find the begining
//of the true URL, and add 1 to skip it - this is the BeginURL value. We use serverIndex as the end marker.
//urlresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex - 4,serverIndex);
BeginURL=DocURL.indexOf("#",1) + 1;
urlresult=DocURL.substring(BeginURL,serverIndex);

//for display, we need to skip after http://, and go to the next slash
displayresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex + 3 ,serverIndex);
document.write('<A HREF="' + urlresult + '">' + displayresult + "</a>");
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

<META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=3 width=410>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center align=left width=360>
<H1 style="FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana; COLOR: #000000"><!--Problem-->The page
cannot be displayed</H1></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=400 colSpan=2><FONT
style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">There is a problem with the
page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=400 colSpan=2><FONT
style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">
<HR color=#c0c0c0 noShade>

<P>Please try the following:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Click the <A href="javascript:location.reload()">Refresh</A> button,
or try again later.<BR>
<LI>Open the
<SCRIPT>
<!--
if (!((window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") > 0) && (window.navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2")))
{
Homepage();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
home page, and then look for links to the information you want.</LI>
<LI>If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page,
please contact the Web site administrator by using the e-mail address or
phone number listed on the
<SCRIPT> Homepage();</SCRIPT>
home page. </LI></UL>
<H2 style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">11004 - Host not found<BR>Internet Security and Acceleration Server</H2>
<HR color=#c0c0c0 noShade>

<P>Technical Information (for support personnel)</P>
<UL>
<LI>Background:<BR>This error indicates that the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, could not find the IP address of an upstream content server.<P></P></LI>
</UL></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>

(This will prolly crash the board or sumtin.. But.. And i know this is what my firewall "isaserver" gives when it cannot reach a webpage.)

So.. can anyone tell me what their "Ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net" reports? Please..

[Ayukawa]

Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS>Ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net
Unknown host patchdata.foreverhacking.net.

C:\WINDOWS>ping foreverhacking.net

Pinging foreverhacking.net [207.44.214.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=67ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=67ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 207.44.214.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 64ms, Maximum = 67ms, Average = 66ms

C:\WINDOWS>

[totor]

I have the same problem : patchsrv.dat cannot be found

- I noticed I have this patched.temp file (in html format) saying:

Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:
A DNS lookup error occured. The host was not found.
Please contact the administrator.

This file is recorded/refreshed everytime I tried to run patcher and got the patchsrv.dat not found error.

- Win 98se, EQ with expansion up to PoP, patcher files under the right directory, cable modem broadband connection, connected to cable modem through a surecom router with NAT, using DHCP

- I tried the same patcher in another machine earlier, using Win Me, ADSL connection, also behind a router with NAT and NO PROBLEM

- ping foreverhacking.net, ping 204.44.214.99, browse foreverhacking.net were successful (except sometimes ping timed out 1 out of 4 pings)

- ## pls note ## I got a mdac_typ file from my friend (think it installed some kind of SQL files) before I could even run the Patcher. Without that SQL patch, my machine wont even recognize the patcher's first instruction (forgot the exact error mesg)

[Lurker_005]

The patcher is kindof wierd. Things that can help fix the problem are:

Did you follow these instructions (http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=6318) and install mdac_type.exe

Did you actually run mdac_type.exe or just download it?

The patch server is geting LOTS of trafic, try agin later.

ping.exe foreverhacking.net

tracert.exe foreverhacking.net

The contents of patcher.log
The contents of patchedtemp if it exists AND seems to be text

Is patcher.exe in the same dir as eqgame.exe like it should be?


If patcher.log says you downloaded a file ANY file, then my guess is either heavy net trafic, or not installing mdac_typ is the problem.

Also here is a MDAC checker (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F0A8DF6-4A21-4B43-BF53-14332EF092C9&displaylang=en) util from MS

[DeletedUser]

I downloaded the latest Everquest from sony and then let it patch itself. I looks like this dat file doesnt even come with the installer.

[Lurker_005]

It dosen't, the dat files are downloaded each time you run the patcher.

[totor]

it's still asking for patchsrv.dat! (even with mdac_type installed)
nobody can fix it?

for some reason my patch.dat is particularly small...

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 2003/4/14 PM 06:36:20
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 257 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 257
GetFile Completed: 804

[Pinghan]

This problem still not solved ... sigh ... :cry:

[Denon]

I am having this problem now also, scoured this board for weeks and tried everything the patcher will not work, keeps asking for patchsvr.dat no matter what.

IS there a fix for this i'm missing OR is there a place where i can just download what the patcher usually sends??

Please nearly three weeks i've been trying on and off, this is my first post on it cause i'm lost.

[DeletedUser]

Let me explain a few things

1) Patchsrv.dat is built INTO the exe. What it stores is the patch server data. But it is a resource inside the patch.exe itself.

2) We have it doing "weird" things to keep people from piggybacking on our system to download old files as much as possible. It does a connection to an IP address itself, that is why proxies DO NOT WORK WITH IT!. It opens an IP address to the patch server then does its own downloads, it is NOT USING INTERNET EXPLORER. Yes, the hostname it is trying to request does not exist. It is designed that way. It does a DNS on a whole other domain to get the ip of the server, does a direct tcp connection to port 80, then does its own HTTP/1.1 handling.

3) We dont know why some people are having problems.

I have had no problems with it on Directly connected Windows 2000 workstations (Latest Service Pack) and Windows XP Pro (Latest Service Pack + hotfixes). My machines are not behind a nat firewall device or any type of proxy server that my ISP makes me go through (like some dsl/cable providers do).

[luvmyhonda]

freakin noice hogie. freakin noice. I am impressed.